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   mamba
         n 1: arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is
               often fatal

English Dictionary: minify by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mambo
n
  1. a Latin American dance similar in rhythm to the rumba
v
  1. dance a mambo
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Menippe
n
  1. stone crabs
    Synonym(s): Menippe, genus Menippe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
minify
v
  1. make smaller; "He decreased his staff" [syn: decrease, lessen, minify]
    Antonym(s): increase
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Mumbai
n
  1. a city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea; India's 2nd largest city (after Calcutta); has the only natural deep-water harbor in western India
    Synonym(s): Mumbai, Bombay
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mummify
v
  1. preserve while making lifeless; "mummified ideas and institutions should be gotten rid of"
  2. remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it; "Th Egyptians mummified their pharaohs"
  3. dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture; "a mummified body was found"
    Synonym(s): mummify, dry up
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      2. Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person,
            as distinguished from a woman or a child.
  
                     When I became a man, I put away childish things. --I
                                                                              Cor. xiii. 11.
  
                     Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man. --Dryden.
  
      3. The human race; mankind.
  
                     And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
                     our likeness, and let them have dominion. --Gen. i.
                                                                              26.
  
                     The proper study of mankind is man.   --Pope.
  
      4. The male portion of the human race.
  
                     Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than
                     man to the discharge of parental duties. --Cowper.
  
      5. One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities
            of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
            --Shak.
  
                     This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the
                     elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up
                     And say to all the world [bd]This was a man![b8]
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      6. An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
  
                     Like master, like man.                        --Old Proverb.
  
                     The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered,
                     and holding up his hands between those of his lord,
                     professed that he did become his man from that day
                     forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor.
                                                                              --Blackstone.
  
      7. A term of familiar address often implying on the part of
            the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or
            haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose!
  
      8. A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.
  
                     I pronounce that they are man and wife. --Book of
                                                                              Com. Prayer.
  
                     every wife ought to answer for her man. --Addison.
  
      9. One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of
            the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
  
                     A man can not make him laugh.            --Shak.
  
                     A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all
                     they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum
                     of a Roman ship.                                 --Addison.
  
      10. One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or
            draughts, are played.
  
      Note: Man is often used as a prefix in composition, or as a
               separate adjective, its sense being usually
               self-explaining; as, man child, man eater or maneater,
               man-eating, man hater or manhater, man-hating,
               manhunter, man-hunting, mankiller, man-killing, man
               midwife, man pleaser, man servant, man-shaped,
               manslayer, manstealer, man-stealing, manthief, man
               worship, etc. Man is also used as a suffix to denote a
               person of the male sex having a business which pertains
               to the thing spoken of in the qualifying part of the
               compound; ashman, butterman, laundryman, lumberman,
               milkman, fireman, showman, waterman, woodman. Where the
               combination is not familiar, or where some specific
               meaning of the compound is to be avoided, man is used
               as a separate substantive in the foregoing sense; as,
               apple man, cloth man, coal man, hardware man, wood man
               (as distinguished from woodman).
  
      {Man ape} (Zo[94]l.), a anthropoid ape, as the gorilla.
  
      {Man at arms}, a designation of the fourteenth and fifteenth
            centuries for a soldier fully armed.
  
      {Man engine}, a mechanical lift for raising or lowering
            people through considerable distances; specifically
            (Mining), a contrivance by which miners ascend or descend
            in a shaft. It consists of a series of landings in the
            shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod
            which has an up and down motion equal to the distance
            between the successive landings. A man steps from a
            landing to a shelf and is lifted or lowered to the next
            landing, upon which he them steps, and so on, traveling by
            successive stages.
  
      {Man Friday}, a person wholly subservient to the will of
            another, like Robinson Crusoe's servant Friday.
  
      {Man of straw}, a puppet; one who is controlled by others;
            also, one who is not responsible pecuniarily.
  
      {Man-of-the earth} (Bot.), a twining plant ({Ipom[d2]a
            pandurata}) with leaves and flowers much like those of the
            morning-glory, but having an immense tuberous farinaceous
            root.
  
      {Man of war}.
            (a) A warrior; a soldier. --Shak.
            (b) (Naut.) See in the Vocabulary.
  
      {To be one's own man}, to have command of one's self; not to
            be subject to another.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Minify \Min"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Minified}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Minifying}.] [L. minor less + -fly.]
      1. To make small, or smaller; to diminish the apparent
            dimensions of; to lessen.
  
      2. To degrade by speech or action.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mummify \Mum"mi*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mummified}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Mummifying}.] [Mummy + -fy: cf. F. momifier.]
      To embalm and dry as a mummy; to make into, or like, a mummy.
      --Hall (1646).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mump \Mump\, v. i. [Akin to mumble; cf. D. mompen to cheat;
      perh. orig., to whine like a beggar, D. mompelen to mumble.
      See {Mumble}, {Mum}, and cf. {Mumps}.]
      1. To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in
            sulkiness.
  
                     He mumps, and lovers, and hangs the lip. --Taylor,
                                                                              1630.
  
      2. To talk imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly; to chatter
            unintelligibly.
  
      3. To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.
  
                     And then when mumping with a sore leg, . . . canting
                     and whining.                                       --Burke.
  
      4. To be sullen or sulky. [Prov. Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mump \Mump\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mumped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Mumping}.]
      1. To utter imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly.
  
                     Old men who mump their passion.         --Goldsmith.
  
      2. To work over with the mouth; to mumble; as, to mump food.
  
      3. To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Munify \Mu"ni*fy\, v. t. & i. [See {Munificate}.]
      To prepare for defense; to fortify. [Obs.]

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Menifee, AR (city, FIPS 45200)
      Location: 35.14831 N, 92.55482 W
      Population (1990): 355 (137 housing units)
      Area: 5.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Menifee, CA
      Zip code(s): 92584
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